Several new species of coelacanths that lived at the end of the Triassic period, some 200 million years ago, have been identified from museum specimens unearthed over 150 years ago in the United ...

Archaeologists have performed the first systematic, interdisciplinary analysis of the composition, technology, and contents of 51 ‘Phoenician oil bottles’ from the island of Motya, off the west coast ...

The armored ankylosaurian dinosaurs are best known from Late Cretaceous northern hemisphere ecosystems, but their early evolution in the Early-Middle Jurassic is shrouded in mystery due to a poor ...

The atmosphere of Earth during the Mesozoic era, between 252 and 66 million years ago, contained far more carbon dioxide than it does today and total photosynthesis from plants around the world was ...

The new Polana collisional family in the Solar System’s main asteroid belt is the hypothesized origin of the near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu, which was the target of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, and ...

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of stem-chelydrid turtle using complete fossilized shells and associated material found in the Early Paleocene Denver Formation in Colorado.

Archaeologists from University College London and elsewhere have examined a molar tooth of a female Bos taurus (cow) discovered at Stonehenge. In 1924, archaeologists recovered the right mandible of ...

Paleoanthropologists from Tel Aviv University, the Université de Liège and France’s Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle say they have found a combination of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens traits in the ...

Labeled FRB 20250316A and nicknamed RBFLOAT (Radio Brightest FLash Of All Time), the event occurred in the outer regions of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 4141. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief and ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient Homo sapiens undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of km of ice over the Bering Strait to the unknown world of the Americas. Now, a new study suggests that ...

In a new study, a team of astronomers from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed when and where human deep space transmissions would be most detectable by an alien observer outside ...